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2013-05-23 16:26:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Why 381,654,729 is awesome - Numberphile

2013-05-23 16:00:08 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

The mystery of the submerged city in the Sea of Galilee

"The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.

It's thousands of years old—a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored.

The problem is—it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of Galilee. For now, at least, Israeli researchers are left stranded on dry land, wondering what finds lurk below."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-submerged-stumps-israeli-archaeologists.html#jCp

2013-05-23 06:11:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I have just found out that a good friend and long time social media participant, and member of our Google Plus family, was hit pretty hard by the Moore, Ok tornado.

Her house and property sustained considerable damage and some friends of her were casualties.

I cannot disclose her name to respect her privacy, but know that Google Plus community is close to the people of Moore, Oklahoma that got affected by this horrible natural calamity...

2013-05-23 05:06:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Well, its all coming apart for Apple, isn't it? The Samsung hate must be chewy in Sunnyvale. As if Samsung was somehow responsible for Google Now. What a bunch of rubes. 

2013-05-23 02:58:25 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Researchers at the University of Michigan have used a 3-D printer to create a custom-made, life-saving implant for baby boy, they report in a letter in 'The New England Journal of Medicine.'

2013-05-23 02:39:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

http://youtu.be/k5Yyc-G5eS8

2013-05-22 22:15:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale – meaning the films are only one atom thick. The technique can be used to create these thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are two inches wide, or larger."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-technique-era-atomic-scale-semiconductor-devices.html#jCp

2013-05-22 22:08:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Scientists refine models for difficult to forecast wild weather changes on Saturn's moon Titan

"(Phys.org) —Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct. Scientists think that as the seasons change in Titan's northern hemisphere, waves could ripple across the moon's hydrocarbon seas, and hurricanes could begin to swirl over these areas, too. The model predicting waves tries to explain data from the moon obtained so far by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Both models help mission team members plan when and where to look for unusual atmospheric disturbances as Titan summer approaches.

"If you think being a weather forecaster on Earth is difficult, it can be even more challenging at Titan," said Scott Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist at NASA's JetP... more »

2013-05-22 20:55:55 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —Life as we know it may not have existed if the Earth wasn't repeatedly bombarded by massive planetary bodies more than 4 billion years ago according to new research conducted by scientists at the University of New Mexico and NASA Johnson Space Center. The results of the massive collisions indicate that much of Earth's supply of chlorine was blown away creating a habitable environment suitable for the existence of complex forms of life – including humans.

In a paper titled, "The chlorine abundance of Earth: Implications for a habitable planet," published recently in an issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, UNM Regents' Professor Zach Sharp, UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and David Draper of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas (formerly of UNM's Institute of Meteoritics), research suggests the removal of thechl... more »

2013-05-22 20:52:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Excellent article about Ed Stone and the Voyager spacecraft by Alexandra Witze

2013-05-22 20:50:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Darth Vader Stress Head

What does the Dark Lord of the Sith do when he finds himself a little stressed out by those Rebel scum?

Why he squeezes his head of course. What else would you do?

Amazon.com: Darth Vader Stress Head - http://amzn.to/14ShmQG

2013-05-22 20:48:29 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

How To Learn Anything

I saw +Liz Krane  share this nugget of pure awesomeness about learning. [http://goo.gl/HePQ1]

Learning is a skill. It's easy to master. For example, I start differently when I'd want to learn something new in web development. Yes, I do break it down, and I start with deployment. Not the Hello World; deployment! That works for me. Just figure out what works for you.

To demonstrate learning faster, I also use this method to remember what I'm picking up. Deconstructed the video from the share into this visual. It's much easier to remember. #HowToLearnAnything  

2013-05-22 20:21:20 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Scientists uncover what they believe were the Neanderthal weaning habits

"Neanderthals may have started weaning their young from seven months of age and transferred them to solid food by just over a year, a fossil tooth study said Wednesday.

This is within the range for modern humans and chimpanzees, a research team wrote in the journal Nature, but may have been later compared to Stone Age Homo sapiens."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-science-teeth-neanderthal-weaning-habits.html#jCp

Image: Homo neanderthalensis, adult male. Image Credit: John Gurche, artist / Chip Clark, photographer

2013-05-22 20:16:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led research published Wednesday in the journal Nature."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-fragile-mega-galaxy-link-history-cosmos.html#jCp

2013-05-22 20:10:45 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Ladies and Gentlemen, soon we'll be able to print our own food!

"(Phys.org) —The idea of living with 3-D printed food is neither unthinkable nor new; designers and futurists have been looking to 3-D printing as food's next frontier. In 2012, there was news that the Thiel Foundation made a $350,000 donation to Modern Meadow. Co-founded by Gabor and Andras Forgacs, two tech-entrepreneurs, the company focus was on commercialized bioprinting and they were exploring bioprinted meat —applying the basic idea of layering cells using print technology. Now, NASA similarly made a next-frontier move in bestowing a $125,000 grant on Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) in Austin, Texas. The company has been given the nod from NASA to create a prototype of a food synthesizer. The prototype will follow the company's-proof of concept a chocolate printer, applying alay... more »

2013-05-22 19:03:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —In order to study many complex phenomena, physicists seek to isolate them in potential wells or boxes with easily described forms and boundary conditions. These features in turn dictate various behaviors of the system under study like, for example, equilibrium states or resonances. In recent times it has emerged that constraining particles on extremely small scales can result in interesting new behaviors. Artificial atom systems, like quantum dots, can be fine-tuned in this way to specific color or conductivity according to their dimension. In some cases, even the phase of a material can be manipulated. A group of researchers has recently demonstrated the ability to precisely control the phase structure of superfluid helium-3 by manipulating the geometry of the container that holds it, and applying an appropriate magnetic field. Their new paper, recently published in Science, describesh... more »

2013-05-22 19:03:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —Highview Power Storage, a British company that develops energy storage systems for utility companies has received $18 million in funding from several backers to investigate the use of "liquid air" as a means of storing electricity for backup purposes. Liquid air is air that has been chilled to the point of liquefying—when warmed it expands, allowing for the possibility of driving turbines to create electricity."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-energy-companies-liquid-air-backup.html#jCp

2013-05-22 16:19:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —Now that it looks like the hunt for the Higgs boson is over, particles of dark matter are at the top of the physics "Most Wanted" list. Dozens of experiments have been searching for them, but often come up with contradictory results.

Theorists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, believe they've come up with an algorithm – a mathematical description of how the individual particles behave – that could help narrow the search for these elusive particles, which are thought to make up more than 25 percent of the matter and energy in the universe.

It starts with assumptions, said Yao-Yuan Mao, lead author of a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal that outlines their new search tool. Assumptions are a good starting point when you don't know where to look. A popularassum... more »

2013-05-22 15:58:36 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Active Region 1745 produced a M7-class solar flare, peaking around 13:32 UT on May 22, 2013, sending solar plasma into Space. 

Since this region has already traveled across the Earth facing side of the Sun, and is about to rotate over the western limb of the Sun - the coronal mass ejection is not going to impact Earth. 

Credit: NASA SDO
#NASA   #SDO   #Sun   #SpaceWeather  

2013-05-22 15:57:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source promises four-bit magnetic cells instead of the two-bit magnetic domains of standard magnetic memories. Magnetic vortices are whirlpools of magnetic field, in which electron spins point either clockwise or counterclockwise. In the crowded center of the whirlpool the spins point either down or up. These four orientations could represent separate bits of information in a new kind of memory, if controlled independently and simultaneously."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-whirlpools-nanoscale-magnetic-memory.html#jCp

2013-05-22 15:57:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"An unusual wave that does not spread out as it travels could become a key component in speedy computer chips that use beams of light to carry and process data. Jiao Lin, a physicist at the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, helped to develop the electromagnetic wave, which can travel some 80 micrometers in a straight line without diffracting."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-optical-benefit-electromagnetic.html#jCp

2013-05-22 15:56:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on solar power alone was set to soar early Wednesday on the second leg of its journey across the United States."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-solar-plane-leg-cross-country.html#jCp

2013-05-21 21:28:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Creepy Kirk!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Captain-Kirk-vintage-Halloween-mask-replica-Star-Trek-myer-post-rare-collectible-/140979192847?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

2013-05-21 21:18:43 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 5 +1s)

"CNN's Nick Glass meets Hugh Herr, a double amputee and creator of the world's most advanced bionic leg."

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/05/13/ctw-art-of-movement-bionic-leg.cnn.html

2013-05-21 20:43:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

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2013-05-21 20:30:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more like a modern-day falcon.

"Apparently one size doesn't fit all when it comes to dinosaur feeding styles," said Ohio University paleontologist Eric Snively, lead author of the new study published today in Palaeontologia Electronica. "Many people think of Allosaurus as a smaller and earlier version of T. rex, but our engineering analyses show that they were very different predators.""

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-allosaurus-fed-falcon-crocodile.html#jCp

2013-05-21 20:29:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"About 12,800 years ago when the Earth was warming and emerging from the last ice age, a dramatic and anomalous event occurred that abruptly reversed climatic conditions back to near-glacial state. According to James Kennett, UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor in earth sciences, this climate switch fundamentally –– and remarkably –– occurred in only one year, heralding the onset of the Younger Dryas cool episode."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-comprehensive-analysis-impact-spherules-theory.html#jCp

2013-05-21 19:53:39 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Here's Jack Owicki looking as happy as a cave spider at our last Belize insect course. That's a Paraphrynus tailless whip scorpion on his head- an impressive but harmless animal common in the local caves.

If you'd like to join us on our next insect nerd-cation, we still have a handful of spaces left for the September 22-29 course: http://bugshot.net/events/

2013-05-21 19:48:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Awesomeness in science experiments

Luke McKinney's +Cracked.com article on cool experiments, specifically the part on +Chris Hadfield doing the wet towel experiment on the ISS is so great, I'm going to quote most of that section:

Commander +Chris Hadfield has just finished his shift as the Mister Rogers of space. He swung by every day (15.7 times) to tell us that everything is great. And when he looked out the window, he really could see everyone, why they should get along, and just how beautiful the world is.

On Twitter and in space, he's the embodiment of Canada, quietly getting things right while everyone else gets upset about nonsense. PR is obviously part of the job, but he isn't up there chilling and advertising. All of every day is space work, and when he gets a few moments to himself, Commander Hadfield's idea of R&R is thinking... more »

2013-05-21 19:47:31 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Earning a PhD by studying a theory that we know is wrong http://ars.to/1920ZUX

2013-05-21 19:45:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

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2013-05-21 18:21:36 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

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2013-05-21 18:20:27 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-21 17:52:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Every Single GDL @ I/O Segment from I/O 2013, In One Place
#gdl   #io13   #developers   #android   #chrome   #drive   #ingress   #search   #maps   #wallet   #cloud   #dart   #gmail  

Last week was a whirlwind, starting with the incredible keynote, followed by three full days of sessions from Moscone Center in San Francisco. Between sessions throughout the first two days of the event, we delivered exclusive content and interviews on GDL @ I/O, including excellent guests like +Bradley Horowitz, +Megan Smith, +John Hanke, +Hugo Barra, +Baris Gultekin and more.

GDL @ I/O also showcased content from a wide array of products, including +Android, +Google Chrome, +Project Glass, +Google Drive, +YouTube, +Google Maps, +Google Cloud Platform +Google Wallet and more. 

If you’re like me, you know there’s good content in here youdidn’t get the chan... more »

2013-05-21 17:36:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

"14 species of crocodile lived in South America around 5 million years ago, at least seven of which populated the coastal areas of the Urumaco River in Venezuela at the same time. Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have found evidence of an abundance of closely related crocodiles that remains unparalleled to this day. As they were highly specialized, the crocodiles occupied different eco-niches. When the watercourses changed due to the Andean uplift, however, all the crocodile species became extinct."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-crocodiles-million-years.html#jCp

2013-05-21 17:35:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —An international team of wildlife researchers has found evidence to support the theory that some birds, such as penguins, lost the ability to fly because of adaptations that allowed for better swimming. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes the results of testing energy efficiency levels of birds that both fly and dive as compared to birds that have lost the ability to fly."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-evidence-birds-gave-flight-swimmers.html#jCp

2013-05-21 17:34:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

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"The system makes use of the unique physical properties of bosons, subatomic particles that scientists have attempted to incorporate into lasers for decades."
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"The work is detailed in the May 16 issue of Nature, and was conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, and a team from the University of Würzburg in Germany, led by physicist Alfred Forchel."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-physicists-revolutionary-low-power-polariton-laser.html#jCp

2013-05-21 17:31:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Origins of human culture linked to rapid climate change

"Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research.

The research, published this month in Nature Communications, was conducted by a team of scientists from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Barcelona."

The scientists studied a marine sediment core off the coast of South Africa and reconstructed terrestrial climate variability over the last 100,000 years."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-human-culture-linked-rapid-climate.html#jCp

2013-05-21 17:27:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"(Phys.org) —Two tech talents, formerly employees at video game publisher Valve, have been working on their own vision in the form of game-ready glasses. Their company, Technical Illusions, will seek to commercialize their technology, being introduced to gaming fans as castAR, a projected augmented reality (AR) game system. The system features a pair 3-D AR glasses. The two creators are Jeri Ellsworth, former Valve hardware engineer, and programmer Rick Johnson. They belong to a corps of inventors with products designed to delight game players with novel ways to interact with their computers. Ellsworth and Johnson's creation made an appearance at Maker Faire, where they decided to debut their prototype system."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-game-castar-debuts-maker-faire.html#jCp

2013-05-21 15:50:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Wow - it works! #autoawesome  of the BBC newsroom

2013-05-21 13:35:37 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Toward the birth of an artificial eye

"(Phys.org) —A team of European researchers working at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has created an artificial compound eye that is comparable to those in insects such as the fruit fly. In their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how they overcame the problem of accurately aligning photoreceptors and other optical components on a curved surface by using stacked layers of microelectronics."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-insect-sized-artificial-compound-eye-video.html#jCp

2013-05-21 13:28:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

NASA to launch the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRIment (CIBER) on a Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket between 11 and 11:59 p.m. EDT, June 4 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia; intended to further understand the origin of our Universe

"(Phys.org) —Scientists will seek to gain answers to these questions with the launch of the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRIment (CIBER) on a Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket between 11 and 11:59 p.m. EDT, June 4 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-nasa-universe.html#jCp

Image explanation and credits: "Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old. Galaxies formation follows the gravitational wells produced by dark matter, where hydrogen gas coalesces, and the first stars ignite. CIBER studiest... more »

2013-05-21 13:22:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

A new "fun" game based on the Google Streetview:

Where the heck am I?

Does everyone get as difficult a starting point? :-)
I could be anywhere from Finland to France to Ontario...

Try it!

http://www.geoguessr.com/

#Maps   #Streetview   #Games   #Google  

Thanks for sharing +Jussi Luhtasela :-)

2013-05-21 13:21:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Stripped by Lightning ... Twisted Sifter - "In this incredible sighting, we see a tree completely stripped of its bark after being struck by lightning. The photograph was taken by Redditor Fidget08 who says he noticed the tree on his way to work this morning. ...

The photo was taken outside of Hennessy Hall (The Mansion), a 100-room Georgian-style building designed in the 1890s by Stanford White. It replicates a wing in Henry VIII’s Hampton Court and is located at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. ..."

http://bit.ly/18eXHMG

2013-05-21 13:04:33 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Just a test of the recently released Google Plus photos  #AutoAwesome  feature.

Please, disregard and move along.  Thanks.